Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Discipline
-
- Law (77)
- Social and Behavioral Sciences (50)
- Law and Economics (26)
- Economics (24)
- Sociology (24)
-
- Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration (23)
- Arts and Humanities (20)
- Legal Studies (20)
- Law and Society (16)
- Philosophy (15)
- Criminal Law (14)
- Economic Policy (14)
- Business (13)
- Business Organizations Law (11)
- Jurisprudence (11)
- Ethics and Political Philosophy (10)
- Legal History (10)
- Policy Design, Analysis, and Evaluation (9)
- Securities Law (9)
- Work, Economy and Organizations (9)
- Civil Rights and Discrimination (8)
- Criminology and Criminal Justice (8)
- Economic Theory (8)
- International Law (8)
- Criminal Procedure (7)
- Legal Profession (7)
- Political Science (7)
- Public Law and Legal Theory (7)
- Antitrust and Trade Regulation (6)
- Business Law, Public Responsibility, and Ethics (6)
- Institution
- Keyword
-
- Corporations (5)
- Securities Law (5)
- Criminal Law and Procedure (4)
- Criminal law (4)
- Discrimination (4)
-
- Legal Philosophy (4)
- Books -- reviews (3)
- Courts (3)
- Criminal Sentencing (3)
- Income Taxation (3)
- Nonfiction (3)
- Philosophy (3)
- Taxation-Federal Income (3)
- Codifying defenses (2)
- Consolidating offenses (2)
- Corporate Finance (2)
- Criminal law codification (2)
- Defining offenses (2)
- Deterrence (2)
- Drafting (2)
- Economics (2)
- Employment (2)
- Grading offenses (2)
- Immigration (2)
- Intellectual property (2)
- Jurisprudence (2)
- Law and Society (2)
- Law and economics (2)
- Law school (2)
- Legal Profession (2)
Articles 1 - 30 of 85
Full-Text Articles in Entire DC Network
Social Welfare, Human Dignity, And The Puzzle Of What We Owe Each Other, Amy L. Wax
Social Welfare, Human Dignity, And The Puzzle Of What We Owe Each Other, Amy L. Wax
All Faculty Scholarship
Proponents of work-based welfare reform claim that moving the poor from welfare to work will advance the goals of economic self-reliance and independence. Reform opponents attack these objectives as ideologically motivated and conceptually incoherent. Drawing on perspectives developed by luck egalitarians and feminist theorists, these critics disparage conventional notions of economic desert, find fault with market measures of value, debunk ideals of autonomy, and emphasize the pervasiveness of interdependence and unearned benefits within free market societies. These arguments pose an important challenge to justifications usually advanced for work-based welfare reform. Reform proponents must concede that no member of society can …
Regulating Irrational Exuberance And Anxiety In Securities Markets , Peter H. Huang
Regulating Irrational Exuberance And Anxiety In Securities Markets , Peter H. Huang
All Faculty Scholarship
This paper analyzes the regulatory implications of irrational exuberance and anxiety in securities markets. U.S. federal securities laws mandate the disclosure of certain information, but regulate only the cognitive form and content of that information. An important and unstudied question is how to regulate securities markets where some investors respond not only cognitively to the form and content of information, but also emotionally to the form and content of information. This paper investigates that question when some investors feel exuberance or anxiety that is unjustified by cognitive processing of the available information. This paper develops the implications for mandatory securities …
Review Of: Discrete Mathematics By Lászlo Lovász, Józef Pelikán, And Katalin K. Vesztergombi, Robert A. Beezer
Review Of: Discrete Mathematics By Lászlo Lovász, Józef Pelikán, And Katalin K. Vesztergombi, Robert A. Beezer
All Faculty Scholarship
This article reviews the book "Discrete Mathematics," by Lászlo Lovász, Józef Pelikán, and Katalin K. Vesztergombi.
Review Of: Ptolemy’S Geography: An Annotated Translation Of The Theoretical Chapters Translated By J. Lennart Berggren And Alexander Jones, James C. Evans
Review Of: Ptolemy’S Geography: An Annotated Translation Of The Theoretical Chapters Translated By J. Lennart Berggren And Alexander Jones, James C. Evans
All Faculty Scholarship
This article is a review of the book "Ptolemy’s Geography: An Annotated Translation of the Theoretical Chapters" translated by J. Lennart Berggren and Alexander Jones.
Review Of: Advances In Dynamic Equations On Time Scales By Martin Bohner And Allan Peterson, Sigrun Bodine
Review Of: Advances In Dynamic Equations On Time Scales By Martin Bohner And Allan Peterson, Sigrun Bodine
All Faculty Scholarship
Reviews the book "Advances in Dynamic Equations on Time Scales," edited by Martin Bohner and Allan Peterson.
Expert Testimony And Scientific Evidence, Lynn Mclain
Expert Testimony And Scientific Evidence, Lynn Mclain
All Faculty Scholarship
Handout from a day-long lecture on expert and scientific testimony at the Maryland Judicial Institute.
Delinquency Jurisdiction In A Unified Family Court: Balancing Intervention, Prevention, And Adjudication, Gloria Danziger
Delinquency Jurisdiction In A Unified Family Court: Balancing Intervention, Prevention, And Adjudication, Gloria Danziger
All Faculty Scholarship
This article will examine the demographics of the current juvenile delinquency caseloads and will argue that, despite trends toward greater punitive measures-including placement of juveniles in adult courts for certain offenses, the concept of a therapeutic "family-centered court," which inspired Jane Addams and her colleagues, remains the most promising approach to delinquency, articulated most notably by the proponents of the unified family court concept. The article will consider and address objections and concerns raised with respect to this approach, looking at ways in which several states have incorporated juvenile delinquency into a family-centered unified family court.
Preserving Community In The City: Special Improvement Districts And The Privatization Of Urban Racialized Space, Audrey Mcfarlane
Preserving Community In The City: Special Improvement Districts And The Privatization Of Urban Racialized Space, Audrey Mcfarlane
All Faculty Scholarship
This essay examines some of the ramifications of the formation of business improvement districts (BIDs) in urban centers that levy additional taxes in particular geographic areas to provide supplementary services. Originally designed to further business development to improve the tax base of the entire city, these districts are increasingly being used by affluent city neighborhoods to enhance what are viewed as inadequate municipal services. Because cities are often divided into affluent, white neighborhoods and poor minority ones, BIDs are troubling in that they reinforce race and class divisions within what is theoretically an urban whole. Professor McFarlane argues that we …
Building Sector-Based Consensus: A Review Of The Epa's Common Sense Initiative, Cary Coglianese, Laurie K. Allen
Building Sector-Based Consensus: A Review Of The Epa's Common Sense Initiative, Cary Coglianese, Laurie K. Allen
All Faculty Scholarship
In the late 1990s, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) conducted what the agency considered to be a "bold experiment" in regulatory reinvention, bringing representatives from six industrial sectors together with government officials and NGO representatives to forge a consensus on innovations in public policy and business practices. This paper assesses the impact of the agency's "experiment" - called the Common Sense Initiative (CSI) - in terms of the agency's goals of improving regulatory performance and technological innovation. Based on a review of CSI projects across all six sectors, the paper shows how EPA achieved, at best, quite modest accomplishments. …
Statistics Of Arctic Cloud Downwelling Infrared Emissivity, Steven P. Neshyba, Carsten Rathke
Statistics Of Arctic Cloud Downwelling Infrared Emissivity, Steven P. Neshyba, Carsten Rathke
All Faculty Scholarship
Time series of optical depth of Arctic stratus clouds are investigated for scaling properties and biases with respect to a plane-parallel model. The study is based on 3 years of infrared spectrometer and microwave radiometer measurements made at the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement North Slope of Alaska site. Power spectra of radiance and radiance emissivity are found to indicate scaling with a spectral coefficient on the order of 5/3 over 0.5-10 hours, consistent with the Kolmogorov-Obukhov prediction [Kolmogorov, 1941] for three-dimensional turbulence. Irradiance emissivities inferred from the data set, using an independent column approximation and 6-hour time intervals, are further analyzed …
Representation Of A Nonspherical Ice Particle By A Collection Of Independent Spheres For Scattering And Absorption Of Radiation: 2. Hexagonal Columns And Plates, Steven P. Neshyba, Thomas C. Grenfell, Stephen G. Warren
Representation Of A Nonspherical Ice Particle By A Collection Of Independent Spheres For Scattering And Absorption Of Radiation: 2. Hexagonal Columns And Plates, Steven P. Neshyba, Thomas C. Grenfell, Stephen G. Warren
All Faculty Scholarship
[1] A cloud of nonspherical ice particles may be represented in radiation models by a collection of spheres, in which the model cloud contains the same total volume of ice and the same total surface area as the real cloud but not the same number of particles. The spheres then have the same volume-to-area (V/A) ratio as the nonspherical particle. In previous work this approach was shown to work well to represent randomly oriented infinitely long circular cylinders for computation of hemispherical reflectance, transmittance, and absorptance. In this paper the results have been extended to hexagonal columns and plates using …
“Black People’S Money”: The Impact Of Law, Economics, And Culture In The Context Of Race On Damage Recoveries, Regina Austin
“Black People’S Money”: The Impact Of Law, Economics, And Culture In The Context Of Race On Damage Recoveries, Regina Austin
All Faculty Scholarship
“’Black People’s Money’: The Impact of Law, Economics, and Culture in the Context of Race on Damage Recoveries” is one of a series of articles by the author dealing with black economic marginalization; prior work considered such topics as shopping and selling as forms of deviance, street vending, restraints on leisure, and the importance of informality in loan transactions. This article deals with the linkage between the social significance of black people’s money and its material value. It analyzes the construction of “black money,” its association with cash, and the taboos and cultural practices that assure that black money will …
The Effect Of Abortion Legalization On Sexual Behavior: Evidence From Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Jonathan Klick, Thomas Stratmann
The Effect Of Abortion Legalization On Sexual Behavior: Evidence From Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Jonathan Klick, Thomas Stratmann
All Faculty Scholarship
Unwanted pregnancy represents a major cost of sexual activity. When abortion was legalized in a number of states in 1969 and 1970 (and nationally in 1973), this cost was reduced. We predict that abortion legalization generated incentives leading to an increase in sexual activity, accompanied by an increase in sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). Using Centers for Disease Control data on the incidence of gonorrhea and syphilis by state, we test the hypothesis that abortion legalization led to an increase in sexually transmitted diseases. We find that gonorrhea and syphilis incidences are significantly and positively correlated with abortion legalization. Further, we …
Judging Unions' Future Using A Historical Perspective: The Public Policy Choice Between Competition And Unionization, Michael L. Wachter
Judging Unions' Future Using A Historical Perspective: The Public Policy Choice Between Competition And Unionization, Michael L. Wachter
All Faculty Scholarship
In this paper I look at unions' future using a historical perspective and focusing on the period of union ascendancy as well as the past few decades when unions have been in decline. We know trends currently in place are unfavorable to unions. What conditions would be favorable? The rise of unions from the 1930s through the early 1950s was due to the convergence of a number of events - an economic policy that attempted to restrict competition beginning in the 1930s, the twin beliefs that labor markets were inherently noncompetitive and/or that individual workplaces were exploitative, and low union …
Risk, Death And Harm: The Normative Foundations Of Risk Regulation, Matthew D. Adler
Risk, Death And Harm: The Normative Foundations Of Risk Regulation, Matthew D. Adler
All Faculty Scholarship
Is death a harm? Is the risk of death a harm? These questions lie at the foundations of risk regulation. Agencies that regulate threats to human life, such as the EPA, OSHA, the FDA, the CPSC, or NHTSA, invariably assume that premature death is a first-party harm - a welfare setback to the person who dies - and often assume that being at risk of death is a distinct and additional first-party harm. If these assumptions are untrue, the myriad statutes and regulations that govern risky activities should be radically overhauled, since the third-party benefits of preventing premature death and …
Taxing Sunny Days: Adjusting Taxes For Regional Living Costs And Amenities, Michael S. Knoll, Thomas D. Griffith
Taxing Sunny Days: Adjusting Taxes For Regional Living Costs And Amenities, Michael S. Knoll, Thomas D. Griffith
All Faculty Scholarship
Taxpayers pay tax on their nominal income without regard to their regional cost of living or the value of their regional amenities. Although commentators have argued that the income tax's failure to account for such differences is unfair - because residents of high-cost and low-amenity regions pay higher taxes than residents of low-cost and high-amenity regions - that argument is unpersuasive because migration tends to eliminate regional differences in living standards. The tax system's failure to adjust for regional differences is, however, likely to misallocate resources across regions in two ways. First, it is likely to discourage taxpayers from settling …
Genocide, Press Freedom, And The Case Of Hassan Ngeze, C. Edwin Baker
Genocide, Press Freedom, And The Case Of Hassan Ngeze, C. Edwin Baker
All Faculty Scholarship
This essay was written under contract with the United Nations to serve as background for my testimony as an expert witness in behalf of Hassen Ngeze in his prosecution before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. (On motion of the prosecutor, the Court excluded this essay - or report - and the offer of my testimony.) In the Prosecutor v. Ngeze, the prosecution charged Ngeze with direct and public incitement to genocide and conspiracy to commit genocide almost entirely on the basis of his publication of a newspaper, Kangura one of many newspapers being published in Rwanda during the period …
The "Public Menace" Of Blight: Urban Renewal And The Private Uses Of Eminent Domain, Wendell E. Pritchett
The "Public Menace" Of Blight: Urban Renewal And The Private Uses Of Eminent Domain, Wendell E. Pritchett
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Standard Terms Contracting In The Global Electronic Age: European Alternatives, James Maxeiner
Standard Terms Contracting In The Global Electronic Age: European Alternatives, James Maxeiner
All Faculty Scholarship
This article examines American, European Union and German standard terms laws from an American perspective. It considers not only current law, but significant aspects of the development of these bodies of law. It sets out general issues involved in standard terms laws and summarizes American law. It notes the origin of American concepts in Europe and examines standard terms in the struggle over revision of the Uniform Commercial Code. It looks at the law of the European Union and its origin in the consumer movement. It considers in detail the law of one Member State as an example, that of …
Discussed In Federico Stella, Criminal Omissions, Causality, Probability, Counterfactuals: Medical-Surgical Activity, Richard W. Wright
Discussed In Federico Stella, Criminal Omissions, Causality, Probability, Counterfactuals: Medical-Surgical Activity, Richard W. Wright
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
American Law Schools As A Model For Japanese Legal Education? A Preliminary Question From A Comparative Perspective, James Maxeiner
American Law Schools As A Model For Japanese Legal Education? A Preliminary Question From A Comparative Perspective, James Maxeiner
All Faculty Scholarship
Law faculties in Japan are asking whether and how they should remake themselves to become law schools. One basic issue has been framed in terms of whether such programs should be professional or general. One Japanese scholar put it pointedly: "[a] major issue of the proposed reform is whether Japan should adopt an American model law school, i.e., professional education at the graduate level, while essentially doing away with the traditional Japanese method of teaching law at university." American law schools are seen as having as their fundamental goal "to provide the training and education required for becoming an effective …
The Professional In Legal Education: Foreign Perspectives, James Maxeiner
The Professional In Legal Education: Foreign Perspectives, James Maxeiner
All Faculty Scholarship
Japan is about to change its system of legal education. In April 2004 Japan will introduce law schools. Law schools are to occupy an intermediary place between the present undergraduate faculties of law and the national Legal Training and Research Institute. The law faculties are to continue to offer general undergraduate education in law, while the law schools in combination with the national Institute are to provide professional legal education. A principal goal of the change is to produce more lawyers. Law schools are charged with providing "practical education especially for fostering legal professionals." But just what is professional legal …
Questions About The Efficiency Of Employment Arbitration Agreements, Matthew T. Bodie
Questions About The Efficiency Of Employment Arbitration Agreements, Matthew T. Bodie
All Faculty Scholarship
The growing popularity of arbitration agreements is well-documented. The academic literature on these agreements has been largely critical, arguing that they jeopardize important rights and enable employers to take unfair advantage of employees and consumers. However, standard economic analysis suggests that since these agreements are freely negotiated, they presumably increase the utility of both parties and are therefore efficient. This Article raises questions about the efficiency of such agreements in the employment context. It begins by modeling the decision-making process by which a rational employee would judge the desirability of an agreement, both after and before a dispute has arisen. …
Introduction, Joel K. Goldstein
Introduction, Joel K. Goldstein
All Faculty Scholarship
The Richard J. Childress Memorial Lecture has become the highpoint of the academic year at Saint Louis University School of Law. The Lecture, which honors the memory of a long-time dean and member of our faculty,[1] has been delivered each fall beginning in 2000 by a distinguished scholar on an important legal subject. Dean Jeffrey Lewis’s vision of the program was not simply to produce a typical speech on an academic topic, but to commission a preeminent scholar to write a substantial article on a critical issue and to invite responses from other thoughtful scholars and activists. Our Law Journal …
State Revocation Of Law Enforcement Officers' Licenses And Federal Criminal Prosecution: An Opportunity For Cooperative Federalism, Roger L. Goldman
State Revocation Of Law Enforcement Officers' Licenses And Federal Criminal Prosecution: An Opportunity For Cooperative Federalism, Roger L. Goldman
All Faculty Scholarship
This article suggests ways that Department of Justice Attorneys who prosecute state and local law enforcement officers for violation of civil rights under 18 USC §§ 241 and 242 could use state laws that permit revocation of law enforcement officers’ licenses. Whereas federal criminal convictions of non-law enforcement defendants are close to 100%, statistics indicate that when law enforcement officers are go to trial in federal court, the conviction rate is closer to 50%. Thus, if a jury is unlikely to convict because of its natural sympathies towards the officer, prosecutor should seriously consider permitting the officer to agree to …
Corporate Constitutionalism: Antitakeover Charter Provisions As Pre-Commitment, Marcel Kahan, Edward B. Rock
Corporate Constitutionalism: Antitakeover Charter Provisions As Pre-Commitment, Marcel Kahan, Edward B. Rock
All Faculty Scholarship
Constitutions constitute a polity and create and entrench power. A corporate constitution - the governance choices incorporated in state law and the certificate of incorporation - resembles a political constitution. Delaware law allows parties to create corporations, to endow them with perpetual life, to assign rights and duties to "citizens" (directors and shareholders), to adopt a great variety of governance structures, and to entrench those choices. In this Article, we argue that the decision to endow directors with significant power over decisions whether and how to sell the company is a constitutional choice of governance structure. We then argue that …
The Rise And Demise Of The Technology-Specific Approach To The First Amendment, Christopher S. Yoo
The Rise And Demise Of The Technology-Specific Approach To The First Amendment, Christopher S. Yoo
All Faculty Scholarship
This article examines how analytical, technological, and doctrinal developments are forcing the courts to reconsider their media-specific approach to assessing the constitutionality of media regulation. In particular, it offers a comprehensive reevaluation of the continuing validity of the Broadcast Model of regulation, which contains features, such as licensing and direct content regulation, that normally would be considered paradigmatic violations of the First Amendment. Specifically, the analysis assesses the theoretical coherence of the traditional justification for extending a lesser degree of First Amendment protection to broadcasting than to other media (i.e., the physical scarcity of the electromagnetic spectrum) as well as …
Inevitable Mens Rea, Stephen J. Morse
Judicial Independence In Family Courts, Barbara A. Babb, Judith D. Moran
Judicial Independence In Family Courts, Barbara A. Babb, Judith D. Moran
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
A Unified Family Court, Barbara A. Babb